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Happy New Year! It is time again for our annual B2B Marketing "predictions". As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. The benefits of segmentation are substantial. MORE

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Sponsor: True Inflence. Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. MORE

A typical young lady in marketing. Had an interesting chat with Todd Lebo, Senior Director of Content & Business Development at MECLABS Primary Research. He observed one of the most common mistakes made by B2B companies – excessive reliance on junior marketing team members. That rang true. I’ve observed the lack of marketing leadership affecting a lot of companies. It’s been confirmed by many other marketing experts too. While these junior members handle day-to-day responsibilities, they lack the leadership and strategic planning skills a marketing department really needs. MORE

Like many of you I’m enamored with Pinterest , but I can’t help but ask, “Can Pinterest benefit B2B Marketers?” ” Pinterest is a social media site that allows members to create boards for images that they like. You can name the boards whatever you like, and assign them to a category from a list of pre-determined by Pinterest. Market Research on Pinterest. MORE

Have you heard of About.me? If not, you should. Any executive today should have a strong About.me profile. While you should also work on your profile on Linkedin, About.Me creates visually stunning profiles. Let’s see the difference here by looking at Jeff Ogden, President of Find New Customers, on both Linkedin and About.Me: Marketing MORE

Are America’s fastest-growing companies shifting away from blogging as a primary social media platform? ”Maybe” could be a conclusion based on new research examining the INC 500 from The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts. For the first time in the five years that this research has been conducted, the use of blogging declined. What do you think? MORE

Is Quora still a significant social media destination? When the service was first launched, I was (like many others) flooded with notifications of new followers and invitations to follow back, to the point of annoyance. But that flood began to subside in about April of last year and had slowed to a trickle by late summer. Blogger interest in the site seemed to follow a similar pattern. MORE

In his weekly B2B marketing show, Jeff Ogden, President of the B2B Demand Generation and global marketing firm Find New Customers (and the host of Mad Marketing TV ) shares a key marketing lesson using wit and humor. We hope you enjoy it and tune in every Friday for a new show. Marketing Laugh and Learn MORE

By Contributing {grow} Columnist “Social Steve” Goldner. Creating an emotional connection between customers and a brand is probably the Holy Grail of marketing. Most often, brands strive for this by being the pinnacle of something and then reinforcing that position at every touchpoint. Maybe the easiest brand to think of in this sense is Apple. Apple is cool, the hipster of technology. MORE

The B2B demand generation and global marketing company Find New Customers is proud to announce our “Fan of the Month” winner for February 2012 – Mobile Marketing guru Christina “CK” Kerley. ( @cksays on Twitter). This young lady is a dynamo and passionate marketing expert. cannot wait to have her as my guest on Mad Marketing TV. Interviews & Guest Appearances Fan of the Month MORE

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. It’s also interactive: you can change the weights assigned to different items and watch the vendors zoom around the quadrant as a result. MORE

Sundays are for learning at the global marketing firm Find New Customers. We have a simple goal – to share fresh ideas and insights on Sundays. The idea is that in 20 minutes or less, you can come away with new ideas and insights. I’m a huge believer in the power of failure – it shapes us and makes us stronger. How are you embracing failure in YOUR business? It’s Failure! MORE

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. Some actual case studies. MORE

Image via Wikipedia. would not be surprised today if a group of B2B executives said they were using fortune tellers to peer into a crystal ball to make predictions about the future. The ability to make decisions based on predictions is becoming an essential attribute for B2B executives. Emphasis on modeling buyer behavior. Bringing a qualitative interface to the quantitative analytics. MORE

If you want your industrial website to generate qualified leads and drive sales (Who doesn’t?), make sure the site is aligned with your sales process. Without this critical link, your newly redesigned industrial website may be nothing more than eye candy that does very little for your sales. In my daily conversations with manufacturing and industrial companies, I find the mindset is still very much centered on marketing the old way. They want their site visitors to call and their crack sales team will take care of everything to close the deal. Now it boils down to price and delivery time. MORE

The B2B demand generatio n company Find New Customers is proud to announce our “Fan of the Month” winner for February 2012 – Mobile Marketing guru Christina “CK” Kerley. This young lady is a dynamo and passionate marketing expert. cannot wait to have her as my guest on Mad Marketing TV. Check out her website and awesome content at [link]. Congrats, CK! MORE

Unsubscribing should be easy! Let’s face it, email is convenient, but sometimes email marketing sucks. Today’s business buyers are flooded with email they do not want and it seems cannot get rid of. The problem is, publishers and marketers rely heavily on email. This is the message I get when I click unsubscribe. CAPTCHA Protected Unsubscribe This one from TMCnet floored me. MORE

You spend a lot of time writing content on your blog but if the only comments you get are from people looking for free marketing, maybe it’s time to revise your content strategies. Here’s a guest post from Chris Peterson at Straight North integrated marketing services in Chicago. 1. Your Blog as an Interactive Tool. Polls. Make them feel as if they are a part of the blog. MORE

An important aspect of setting up a social media strategy is building a team to make the program work, regardless of the scope and goals. Social media is not a free lunch, and you need your internal team of social media experts to make it happen. Tips and considerations. Let’s agree on terminology first. [.]. Blog Connected marketing Management Social media marketing Christopher Barger personal branding social media strategy social media team The Social Media Strategist MORE

Focus Experts Roundtable (listen here). Some time ago, the Fearless Competitor and President of the B2B demand generation and global marketing company Find New Customers hosted a round-table discussion with three top b2b lead generation experts. It was a very, very popular show, so we wish to share it with you today. The expert panel consisted of: Mac McIntosh of Sales Lead Experts. ”). MORE

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. Cost and ease of use are certainly factors, but one of the important reasons is its extensibility through plugins. How did WordPress emerge as the leading blog platform? Which plugins are the most popular / useful / vital? How did WordPress win? MORE

There I said it. It’s not about the platforms. (We built Find New Customers though social media, by the way.). Think about it. Humans have been communicating for centuries. Cave drawings. Papyrus. Telegraph. Telephone. Postal Mail. Email. Instant Messaging. Social Media. Therefore I content that social media is nothing more than the next generation of communication device. What do you think? MORE

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. Some actual case studies. MORE

My son is a senior in high school and I am beginning to help him with his search for the right school. One of the aspects of college life that he is looking forward to is belonging to a university with strong school spirit. So to help with this, I suggested that we use football teams as a proxy to find the right environment. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. MORE

Editor’s Note (Jeff Ogden of Find New Customers was the featured guest on Hubspot TV some time ago. Click the underlined words to watch that show.). As soon as a new lead comes into sales, a clock starts ticking. In this world of empowered buyers, by time a prospect reaches out, he or she is ready to move. So a quick response is imperative. About Ifbyphone ®. About HubSpot. HubSpot, Inc. MORE

Social media has become a bit of an obsession for me. Not so much as a participant, but as an observer. I’m the technology equivalent of a bird watcher. I’ve been observing B2B marketers in their natural habitat. Noting their behaviours. Sketching and documenting the different species I see. call them ‘Twitologies’ and I’d like to share an outline of them here. It all began with a study Circle Research conducted for B2B Marketing late in 2011 to establish the ‘state of the nation’ in B2B social media. And after more than 250 interviews with client-side readers we had a solid benchmark. MORE

With many new make-overs, the B2B demand generation consultancy and global marketing firm Find New Customer s is armed for a great 2012. And it is filled with great content to help you create a great marketing plan with just the right marketing mix. New robust email. We’ve moved from POP/IMAP to Microsoft Exchange- just like large firms. And I learn tons from those great guests! see below). MORE

Social media can be a huge contributor to a company's lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%) MORE

by Rob Bois | Tweet this Pick up any sales or marketing trade pub, and you’re likely to see that 2011 was the year of social. While B2B companies have jumped on the bandwagon, demand generation marketers often struggle to find its value. It’s one thing to tweet about your company and build a Facebook page, but B2B firms are now looking to tie Social to measurable lead generation. MORE

In this week's guest post, Bob Scheier illustrates the value of buyer personas. Read on for inspiration! Like most folks new to content marketing (the use of content to nurture and drive prospects towards a sale) I was eager to dive right in. wanted to play with the marketing automation software and start blasting out content. And boy, did I get an education. Learning Curve. Very important? MORE

Note: This is a guest post by Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. See Brad’s bio at the end of the article. Participating in social media is time consuming, so it’s only natural that people look for shortcuts. However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating. Automatic feeds come in two flavors. Fully automatic feeds publish to a social media platform without any human intervention. Semi-automatic feeds require intervention. Redundancy. MORE

Businesses turn to marketing to drive revenue, but are you really ready? Before investing in marketing you must ensure other key areas of your business are ready first. Your Product or Service. If your offering isn’t ready for the market, your marketing will not solve your problems. Your Sales Organization. As a buyer, I have experienced this multiple times. New Releases. Educated Buyers. MORE

It’s hard to believe the sheer number of social media tools we use everyday to help grow the Content Marketing Institute and SocialTract , as well as my own personal brand. Which ones am I missing that you cannot live without? disclaimer: many of the tools below are CMI partner tools]. The Basics. LinkedIn - Start the practice of connecting with every business card you receive from contacts. MORE

Find New Customers “Demand Generation Made Simple”, announced today that Founder and President and CEO Jeff Ogden won an award for 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. An entrepreneur, Jeff founded the global marketing firm Find New Customers in 2009 and is regarded as an expert, thought leader and innovator in demand generation and global marketing. MORE

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. Some actual case studies.

Have you heard of About.me? If not, you should. Any executive today should have a strong About.me profile. While you should also work on your profile on Linkedin, About.Me creates visually stunning profiles. Let’s see the difference here by looking at Jeff Ogden, President of Find New Customers, on both Linkedin and About.Me: Marketing

Editor’s Note (Jeff Ogden of Find New Customers was the featured guest on Hubspot TV some time ago. Click the underlined words to watch that show.). As soon as a new lead comes into sales, a clock starts ticking. In this world of empowered buyers, by time a prospect reaches out, he or she is ready to move. So a quick response is imperative. About Ifbyphone ®. About HubSpot. HubSpot, Inc.

With many new make-overs, the B2B demand generation consultancy and global marketing firm Find New Customer s is armed for a great 2012. And it is filled with great content to help you create a great marketing plan with just the right marketing mix. New robust email. We’ve moved from POP/IMAP to Microsoft Exchange- just like large firms. And I learn tons from those great guests! see below).

In his weekly B2B marketing show, Jeff Ogden, President of the B2B Demand Generation and global marketing firm Find New Customers (and the host of Mad Marketing TV ) shares a key marketing lesson using wit and humor. We hope you enjoy it and tune in every Friday for a new show. Marketing Laugh and Learn

The B2B demand generatio n company Find New Customers is proud to announce our “Fan of the Month” winner for February 2012 – Mobile Marketing guru Christina “CK” Kerley. This young lady is a dynamo and passionate marketing expert. cannot wait to have her as my guest on Mad Marketing TV. Check out her website and awesome content at [link]. Congrats, CK!

Focus Experts Roundtable (listen here). Some time ago, the Fearless Competitor and President of the B2B demand generation and global marketing company Find New Customers hosted a round-table discussion with three top b2b lead generation experts. It was a very, very popular show, so we wish to share it with you today. The expert panel consisted of: Mac McIntosh of Sales Lead Experts. ”).

There I said it. It’s not about the platforms. (We built Find New Customers though social media, by the way.). Think about it. Humans have been communicating for centuries. Cave drawings. Papyrus. Telegraph. Telephone. Postal Mail. Email. Instant Messaging. Social Media. Therefore I content that social media is nothing more than the next generation of communication device. What do you think?

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Sponsor: True Inflence. Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key.

Find New Customers “Demand Generation Made Simple”, announced today that Founder and President and CEO Jeff Ogden won an award for 50 Most Influential People in Sales Lead Management. An entrepreneur, Jeff founded the global marketing firm Find New Customers in 2009 and is regarded as an expert, thought leader and innovator in demand generation and global marketing.

A typical young lady in marketing. Had an interesting chat with Todd Lebo, Senior Director of Content & Business Development at MECLABS Primary Research. He observed one of the most common mistakes made by B2B companies – excessive reliance on junior marketing team members. That rang true. I’ve observed the lack of marketing leadership affecting a lot of companies. It’s been confirmed by many other marketing experts too. While these junior members handle day-to-day responsibilities, they lack the leadership and strategic planning skills a marketing department really needs.

25 B2B marketing thought leaders answer the question "What do you expect to B2B marketers to be doing more of or differently in 2016?" The results are amazing insights around content marketing, achieving business results, alignment, employee advocacy, new technologies, customer experience and more.

Sundays are for learning at the global marketing firm Find New Customers. We have a simple goal – to share fresh ideas and insights on Sundays. The idea is that in 20 minutes or less, you can come away with new ideas and insights. I’m a huge believer in the power of failure – it shapes us and makes us stronger. How are you embracing failure in YOUR business? It’s Failure!

In his weekly B2B marketing show, Jeff Ogden, President of the B2B Demand Generation and global marketing firm Find New Customers (and the host of Mad Marketing TV ) shares a key marketing lesson using wit and humor. We hope you enjoy it and tune in every Friday for a new show. Marketing Laugh and Learn

The B2B demand generatio n company Find New Customers is proud to announce our “Fan of the Month” winner for February 2012 – Mobile Marketing guru Christina “CK” Kerley. This young lady is a dynamo and passionate marketing expert. cannot wait to have her as my guest on Mad Marketing TV. Check out her website and awesome content at [link]. Congrats, CK!

Focus Experts Roundtable (listen here). Some time ago, the Fearless Competitor and President of the B2B demand generation and global marketing company Find New Customers hosted a round-table discussion with three top b2b lead generation experts. It was a very, very popular show, so we wish to share it with you today. The expert panel consisted of: Mac McIntosh of Sales Lead Experts. ”).

The B2B demand generation and global marketing company Find New Customers is proud to announce our “Fan of the Month” winner for February 2012 – Mobile Marketing guru Christina “CK” Kerley. ( @cksays on Twitter). This young lady is a dynamo and passionate marketing expert. cannot wait to have her as my guest on Mad Marketing TV. Interviews & Guest Appearances Fan of the Month

5 Ways to Differentiate Your Company in a Highly Competitive Marketplace (click on title to register for this webinar). Date: February 15, 2012 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Presented by True Influence (“hand selected” Jeff as speaker for this event.). Overview. With prospects drinking from the fire-hose of content every day, their fingers hover over the Delete key. Some actual case studies.

You spend a lot of time writing content on your blog but if the only comments you get are from people looking for free marketing, maybe it’s time to revise your content strategies. Here’s a guest post from Chris Peterson at Straight North integrated marketing services in Chicago. 1. Your Blog as an Interactive Tool. Polls. Make them feel as if they are a part of the blog.

Image via Wikipedia. would not be surprised today if a group of B2B executives said they were using fortune tellers to peer into a crystal ball to make predictions about the future. The ability to make decisions based on predictions is becoming an essential attribute for B2B executives. Emphasis on modeling buyer behavior. Bringing a qualitative interface to the quantitative analytics.

I released the 2012 edition of our B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST) report today, an event that deserves more hoopla that I’ve given it. The VEST provides by far the most detailed, objective information available on industry vendors. It’s also interactive: you can change the weights assigned to different items and watch the vendors zoom around the quadrant as a result.

Like many of you I’m enamored with Pinterest , but I can’t help but ask, “Can Pinterest benefit B2B Marketers?” ” Pinterest is a social media site that allows members to create boards for images that they like. You can name the boards whatever you like, and assign them to a category from a list of pre-determined by Pinterest. Market Research on Pinterest.

Social media has become a bit of an obsession for me. Not so much as a participant, but as an observer. I’m the technology equivalent of a bird watcher. I’ve been observing B2B marketers in their natural habitat. Noting their behaviours. Sketching and documenting the different species I see. call them ‘Twitologies’ and I’d like to share an outline of them here. It all began with a study Circle Research conducted for B2B Marketing late in 2011 to establish the ‘state of the nation’ in B2B social media. And after more than 250 interviews with client-side readers we had a solid benchmark.

Happy New Year! It is time again for our annual B2B Marketing "predictions". As every year, I asked the 25,000 marketing professionals in the B2B Technology Marketing Community on LinkedIn about their B2B marketing priorities for 2012. And here are the results: 1 - Integration of social media Social media remains the #1 topic in 2012. The benefits of segmentation are substantial.

Are America’s fastest-growing companies shifting away from blogging as a primary social media platform? ”Maybe” could be a conclusion based on new research examining the INC 500 from The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts. For the first time in the five years that this research has been conducted, the use of blogging declined. What do you think?

My son is a senior in high school and I am beginning to help him with his search for the right school. One of the aspects of college life that he is looking forward to is belonging to a university with strong school spirit. So to help with this, I suggested that we use football teams as a proxy to find the right environment. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.

In this week's guest post, Bob Scheier illustrates the value of buyer personas. Read on for inspiration! Like most folks new to content marketing (the use of content to nurture and drive prospects towards a sale) I was eager to dive right in. wanted to play with the marketing automation software and start blasting out content. And boy, did I get an education. Learning Curve. Very important?

By Contributing {grow} Columnist “Social Steve” Goldner. Creating an emotional connection between customers and a brand is probably the Holy Grail of marketing. Most often, brands strive for this by being the pinnacle of something and then reinforcing that position at every touchpoint. Maybe the easiest brand to think of in this sense is Apple. Apple is cool, the hipster of technology.

Is Quora still a significant social media destination? When the service was first launched, I was (like many others) flooded with notifications of new followers and invitations to follow back, to the point of annoyance. But that flood began to subside in about April of last year and had slowed to a trickle by late summer. Blogger interest in the site seemed to follow a similar pattern.

Social media can be a huge contributor to a company's lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion rate at 2.74%, almost 3 times higher (277%) than both Twitter (.69%)

An important aspect of setting up a social media strategy is building a team to make the program work, regardless of the scope and goals. Social media is not a free lunch, and you need your internal team of social media experts to make it happen. Tips and considerations. Let’s agree on terminology first. [.]. Blog Connected marketing Management Social media marketing Christopher Barger personal branding social media strategy social media team The Social Media Strategist

Unsubscribing should be easy! Let’s face it, email is convenient, but sometimes email marketing sucks. Today’s business buyers are flooded with email they do not want and it seems cannot get rid of. The problem is, publishers and marketers rely heavily on email. This is the message I get when I click unsubscribe. CAPTCHA Protected Unsubscribe This one from TMCnet floored me.

It’s hard to believe the sheer number of social media tools we use everyday to help grow the Content Marketing Institute and SocialTract , as well as my own personal brand. Which ones am I missing that you cannot live without? disclaimer: many of the tools below are CMI partner tools]. The Basics. LinkedIn - Start the practice of connecting with every business card you receive from contacts.

WordPress is not only the most popular blogging platform , but is increasingly becoming a leading website content management system (CMS) as well. Cost and ease of use are certainly factors, but one of the important reasons is its extensibility through plugins. How did WordPress emerge as the leading blog platform? Which plugins are the most popular / useful / vital? How did WordPress win?

Businesses turn to marketing to drive revenue, but are you really ready? Before investing in marketing you must ensure other key areas of your business are ready first. Your Product or Service. If your offering isn’t ready for the market, your marketing will not solve your problems. Your Sales Organization. As a buyer, I have experienced this multiple times. New Releases. Educated Buyers.

by Rob Bois | Tweet this Pick up any sales or marketing trade pub, and you’re likely to see that 2011 was the year of social. While B2B companies have jumped on the bandwagon, demand generation marketers often struggle to find its value. It’s one thing to tweet about your company and build a Facebook page, but B2B firms are now looking to tie Social to measurable lead generation.

Note: This is a guest post by Brad Shorr is Director of Content & Social Media for Straight North. See Brad’s bio at the end of the article. Participating in social media is time consuming, so it’s only natural that people look for shortcuts. However, some shortcuts become disastrous detours, and this is often what happens when a company relies on automation for significant portions of its social updating. Automatic feeds come in two flavors. Fully automatic feeds publish to a social media platform without any human intervention. Semi-automatic feeds require intervention. Redundancy.

If you want your industrial website to generate qualified leads and drive sales (Who doesn’t?), make sure the site is aligned with your sales process. Without this critical link, your newly redesigned industrial website may be nothing more than eye candy that does very little for your sales. In my daily conversations with manufacturing and industrial companies, I find the mindset is still very much centered on marketing the old way. They want their site visitors to call and their crack sales team will take care of everything to close the deal. Now it boils down to price and delivery time.

25 B2B marketing thought leaders answer the question "What do you expect to B2B marketers to be doing more of or differently in 2016?" The results are amazing insights around content marketing, achieving business results, alignment, employee advocacy, new technologies, customer experience and more.